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September 17, 2026

GFL (N/R): Not a Seller at 70?! The Math Behind the Privatization Premium (Or Lack Thereof)

By Timm Schneider

GFL Environmental (GFL; N/R), one of North America’s largest waste and environmental services companies, has quietly become one of the more interesting take-private stories in the sector. Back in July, the company disclosed unsolicited interest…

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September 17, 2026

NFG (N/R): Wrong Leak… $5bn Looks Light for Seneca+

By Timm Schneider

According to a Reuters article from yesterday, Seneca (E&P) and select associated infrastructure are up for sale as a variety of strategic initiatives are under review, valuing the assets at ~$5bn. While we do not…

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September 15, 2026

PAIR TRADE IDEA: Long TLN vs. Short DUK

By Timm Schneider

Effective immediately. Closing marks 9-15-2026. See within. Timm We’re long TLN and short DUK because we believe TLN is the cheaper, more direct way to own the AI power demand boom (contracted nuclear plus a…

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September 15, 2026

Love/ Hate Portfolio 19 (LHP19) is Now Live – Some Interesting Flips While Pressing Others

By Timm Schneider

Love/ Hate Portfolio 19 launched today, and in our view this is one of the more aggressively repositioned book we have run recently. Some of our best performing names from LHP18 just flipped sides, and…

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September 14, 2026

Tallgrass Energy (Private): What Comes Next – Strategic Options for the Gas-Pure ‘RemainCo’ Under Blackstone Ownership (Full Note)

By Timm Schneider

This is a detailed follow up to our initial ‘teaser’ note from last night (Blackstone’s (BX; N/R) Tallgrass (Private) Unbundled: What’s Left Once Pony Express Rides Off). This note pulls together everything we’ve built on…

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September 13, 2026

Blackstone’s (BX; N/R) Tallgrass (Private) Unbundled: What’s Left Once Pony Express Rides Off

By Timm Schneider

In our view, Blackstone’s ~$2.55bn sale of Tallgrass’s crude business to Enbridge isn’t just a divestiture, it’s a hard reset of what Tallgrass actually is. We spent all of today (long story, we got stuck…

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September 13, 2026

Texas Activity for August: Permian Takes a Breather; Eagle Ford’s Permit Slide Continues; Haynesville’s Momentum Stalls

By Timm Schneider

August flips July’s script. Physical execution (wells and completions) pulled back hard across nearly every basin, while the permit book firmed for the first time in three months, the first real sign of stabilization since…

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September 13, 2026

Your Weekly News, Weekend Commodity Marks and Updates: Iran to Unveil Hormuz Shipping Pact Monday as Saudi Pipeline Stays Shut…

By Timm Schneider

…well, let’s see what actually happens… Brent & WTI up an implied ~150bps in weekend trading (as of ~12:30 PM) versus Friday’s electronic close, as the Kingdom’s East-West line stays offline and a confirmed U.S.-Iran…

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September 11, 2026

Love/ Hate 18: We Got Bailed Out as the Shorts Actually Delivered This Week

By Timm Schneider

since inception on Aug-31 2026. This one was a nail-biter for a ~310bps two-week Return… We flipped it in the final week. Last Friday’s Haftime Report had LHP18 down -230bps, our first losing week since…

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September 11, 2026

KNTK (N/R) M&A Chatter Follow-Up: Fine, We Added a Few More Buyers (and Backed Into Sponsor Returns, for Fun)

By Timm Schneider

…to our list of hypothetical purchasers. Recall in our most recent note (Kinetik Holdings (KNTK; N/R): Framing a Potential Buyer Universe and a Hypothetical LBO For Good Measure (Full Models Available) we had identified EPD/…

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September 10, 2026

Kinetik Holdings (KNTK; N/R): Framing a Potential Buyer Universe and a Hypothetical LBO For Good Measure (Full Models Available)

By Timm Schneider

This is a tailored follow-up to our inital KNTK M&A note published in November 2025, which can be accessed here: KNTK: Our Analysis Reveals Four Highly Strategic & Accretive Buyers (Others Possible). Please note these…

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September 9, 2026

ENB (N/R): Signed, Sealed, Delivered By Pony Express. 10-11x… Cheap, Rich, or Neither?

By Timm Schneider

Enbridge (ENB; N/R) just bought Tallgrass Energy’s crude oil business, Pony Express, Powder River Gateway, storage, and Stanchion marketing, for ~USD $2.55bn, plus a ~USD $0.6bn Permian bolt-on. Straightforward enough on the surface. Interesting find…

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September 8, 2026

Aboot That Premium, Eh? Tamarack’s (TVE.CN) Bid for Headwater (HWX.CN)…

By Timm Schneider

***Full (initial; pending the 11AM ET call) pro-forma math available upon request*** (Obviously) slow Tuesday am post the U.S. Holiday. You don’t see us writing on Canadian Upstream a lot, BUT there has been some…

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September 6, 2026

Deep Dive: IG on the Street, ‘Freaks’ in the Balance Sheets

By Timm Schneider

ONEOK (OKE), Williams (WMB) and Enbridge (ENB) each rented out a slice of their own balance sheet to Apollo (APO), Blackstone (BX) and KKR inside of seven weeks. Same(ish) playbook, three very different deals. We…

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September 6, 2026

Your Weekly News, Weekend Commodity Marks and Updates; Oil up ~90Bps as of 8AM ET

By Timm Schneider

…versus Friday’s electronic close. Details within. Please ping us with any questions. Have a nice Labor Day Holiday! Timm What happened since Friday Oil is up roughly 0.9% in weekend decentralized trading after the Hormuz…

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